Andrew Kloes is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a historian in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The German Awakening: Protestant Renewal after the Enlightenment, 1815-1848 (Oxford, 2019) and has contributed articles to the Bavinck Review, Harvard Theological Review, Studies in Church History and Wesley and Methodist Studies. Laura M. Mair is the Mary R. S. Creese Lecturer in Modern Scottish History at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity. Her seminal book, Religion and Relationships in Ragged Schools: An Intimate History of Educating the Poor (Routledge, 2019) was the first book-length study of the ragged school movement. She has authored a number of articles in journals including Church History, Family & Community, Scottish Church History and the Journal of Victorian Culture.
This volume pays fitting tribute to a leading historian of social Christianity by making a major new contribution to the literature in fascinating studies that set the Scottish experience in a rich comparative international perspective.--John Wolffe, Professor of Religious History, The Open University